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A southwest Georgia Republican who served a brief federal prison sentence for his actions inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is among those running on Tuesday for a chance to serve in ...
The Election Integrity Act of 2021, originally known as the Georgia Senate Bill 202, [1] [2] is a law in the U.S. state of Georgia overhauling elections in the state. It replaced signature matching requirements on absentee ballots with voter identification requirements, limits the use of ballot drop boxes, expands in-person early voting, bars officials from sending out unsolicited absentee ...
Georgia’s Senate race is headed to a runoff, a high-stakes showdown election in which there are only two candidates on the ballot. Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican ...
Georgia is one of seven states that require a run-off election if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in a primary election and one of only two states (the other being Mississippi) that require a run-off election for state and congressional offices if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in a general election; Louisiana has a ...
Michigan: Former Rep. Mike Rogers, a Republican, takes on Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin for an open Senate seat. Michigan has not elected a Republican senator in 30 years, so this is an uphill ...
Ossoff and Warnock became the first Democrats to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Georgia since Zell Miller in a 2000 special election. Ossoff became the first Democrat elected to a full term in the Senate from Georgia since Max Cleland, who held this seat from 1997 to 2003, and the first Jewish member of the Senate from the state. [6]
In a unanimous decision, the Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Georgia Republican Party to reinstate seven last-minute rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board ahead of ...
Under Georgia law, no primary election took place for the special election; all candidates, regardless of party, were placed on the same ballot (known as a nonpartisan blanket primary, or "jungle primary"), and the election was held on November 3, 2020. Warnock received the most votes with 32.9%, and Loeffler came in second with 25.9%.